Comcast, providers yet to reach deals on Rockets games

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Despite discussions that a company spokesman said continued into the evening Wednesday, Comcast SportsNet Houston officials were unable to expand the new network’s list of cable subscribers prior to the regular-season opener against the Pistons.

With carriage limited to Comcast, Phonoscope and a collection of smaller systems, only about 40 percent of Houston’s roughly 2.2 million television households had access to the first Rockets game on the new network, owned by the Rockets, Astros and NBC Sports Group.

Still unsigned are DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-verse and a collection of smaller cable companies in the area.

“There’s a lot of back and forth (with providers),” a company spokesman said. “We’re continuing to work, and everybody is after the same goal of trying to make this happen.”

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